edited by David F. Clapham, William A.V. Clark and Kenneth Gibb.
1st ed.
Thousand Oaks, CA :
SAGE Publications,
2012.
1 online resource (xvii, 505 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
SECTION 1 HOUSING MARKETS / Kenneth Gibb -- 1. Understanding Housing Markets: Real Progress or Stalled Agendas? / Duncan Maclennan -- 2. Housebuilding and Housing Supply / Michael Ball -- 3. Housing Behaviour / Maarten van Ham -- 4. Residential Mobility and the Housing Market / William A.V. Clark -- 5. Neighborhoods and Their Role in Creating and Changing Housing / George Galster -- SECTION 2 APPROACHES / David Clapham -- 6. The Neo-Liberal Legacy to Housing Research / Christine M.E. Whitehead -- 7. Institutional Economics / Kenneth Gibb -- 8. Social Geographic Interpretations of Housing Spaces / Chris Hamnett -- 9. Social Policy Approaches to Housing Research / David Clapham -- 10. Social Constructionism and Beyond in Housing Research / David Clapham -- 11.A Review of Structurally Inspired Approaches in Housing Studies -- Concepts, Contributions and Future Perspectives / Julie Lawson -- 12. Housing Politics and Political Science / Bo Bengtsson.
13. People-Environment Studies / Roderick Lawrence -- SECTION 3 CONTEXT / William A.V. Clark -- 14. Housing and the Economy / Geoffrey Meen -- 15. Housing and Welfare Regimes / Alexis Mundt -- 16. Housing Markets, the Life Course, and Migration Up and Down the Urban Hierarchy / David A. Plane -- 17. Housing and Social Life / Ray Forrest -- 18. Housing: From Low Energy to Zero Carbon / Phillip Jones -- SECTION 4 POLICY ISSUES / Kenneth Gibb -- 19. Homelessness / Suzanne Fitzpatrick -- 20. Affordable Housing / Steven Rowley -- 21. Housing Subsidies / Judith Yates -- 22. Ethnic Residential Segregation -- Reflections on Concepts, Levels and Effects / Sako Musterd -- 23. Social Consequences of Residential Segregation and Mixed Neighborhoods / Gideon Bolt -- 24. Managing Social Housing / Hugo Priemus.
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This handbook elucidates and critically appraises the key issues within housing studies from a multi-disciplinary framework. It looks at ideas from a retrospective approach, but also analyses the future directions of research and theory in the area demonstrating how the study of housing can contribute to wider debates in the social sciences.